Fulminant Hepatic Failure. Clinical Features, Etiology, Epidemiology, and Current Management

Overview

Journal Dig Dis Sci

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 1991 Jun 1

PMID 2032520

Citations 20

Authors

L Capocaccia

M Angelico

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